Every believing woman is a Woman Of Worth. WOW!

An article from Reader’s Digest said this: "Tired of hearing that the human body is worth only about three dollars? There’s news. Yale University biophysicist, Harold Morowitz says that the human body is actually worth six million dollars. And that price covers only the raw materials - hormones, proteins, enzymes, etc. The intricate work of fashioning the material into human cells might cost six thousand trillion dollars. And assembling these cells into a functioning human being would drain all the world’s treasures." "Each human being is priceless" is the professor’s understatement.

The wonder of it all is that the Creator of each amazing human body wants to have a personal relationship with each individual person. Does that thrill you? It does me! David, the sweet Psalmist of Israel, said "I will praise Thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are Thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well. My substance was not hidden from Thee when I was made in secret and intricately wrought" (Psalm 139:14,15).The all-wise Creator has made this amazing being, the human body, and put within her an eternal soul with a will to choose to obey or disobey her Divine Creator.

The death and resurrection of the Creator’s Son holds the key to a glorious future. By receiving the Savior and the sacrifice He made, a person becomes a new creature with a new beginning. She becomes a precious treasure, a virtual reality, animated (living) jewel.

Are you a woman of God, a living treasure, a jewel? Your potential is awesome. Are you aware that the God of the universe is working on you in His own infinite ways? God has a wonderful way with women, because He created them. Search His perfect Word and find out His perfect will. "As for God His way is perfect. . . . . He maketh my way perfect" (2 Samuel 22:31,33 ). He will perfect that which concerneth me" (Psalm 138:8).

You can be God’s jeweled chef in the kitchen. You can be a hospitable jewel in your living room and dining room, reaching out to others. As a godly wife, you can be a romantic jewel in the bedroom. You may be a fascinating jewel in your neighborhood, displaying the great Jewel-Maker and Designer to others. You may be a genuine sparkling jewel in your church. Oh, how churches need genuine jewels! People all around you view the many facets of your jeweled beauty through various situations in your life, in your every day living.

One  Christmas, years ago, we bought a rock tumbling set for our children. We were as excited as they were. We had an assortment of unique stones for them to practice on, and we could hardly wait to see the wonders the rock tumbler would do with each one.

Eagerly we read the instructions.

1) Tumble in coarse grit for one week
2) Tumble in medium grit for one week.
3) Tumble in fine grit for one week.
4) Tumble in polishing compound for one week.

The process seemed endless to our impatient, expecting hearts. But we persevered and waited. We were not disappointed. The finished product exceeded our expectations. The stones were beautiful.

Oh, the painful plodding process! Are you going through a gritty process right now? You do not understand why it is taking so long. Why all the cutting and grinding and polishing in the dark place?

God says, "I will give thee treasures of darkness and hidden riches in secret places" (Isaiah 45:3).

The Master Jeweler has a wonderful plan, but to bring out the true beauty in a gem requires some pain. The good news is that a spoiled gem, placed in the hands of the Master Designer, can be refashioned. The Psalmist David was a spoiled gem whom God forgave and remade into a "man after God’s own heart." It is possible that the greatest benefits may come out of our deepest trials. Scars can be transformed to stars.

God wants to make a masterpiece out of your life. You are important to Him and worth more than the whole world.

Some time ago I took a ten-week course in faux painting and marbleizing at a nearby Adult Night School. I learned many intriguing things that remind me of the process the heavenly Creator uses to make us into works of beauty. It is a process through which God can make you into a lovely treasure that will live in joy and bliss forever in God’s glorious heaven.

1) The process begins with a simple, plain wooden box. Like this wooden box, formed from a tree, we all had a beginning. This box cannot make itself into something grand, even as you cannot make yourself into something grand. The exciting thing, however, is that the Master Artist can make a masterpiece out of your life if you will let Him.

2) The next step in the process is the use of a primer. On the can of primer are the words "Stain Killer". How thrilling! Spiritually, our Wonderful Lord can take every stain of the past and remove it forever. He paid a great price to pay the penalty for everything wrong we have ever done. The secret of a new beginning, a glorious beginning, is to accept God’s precious free gift of Salvation. No personal credentials are required. Good works, faithful church attendance, giving to the poor, as necessary and important as they are, cannot get you into heaven. It is only by receiving Christ into the heart and life that we can know the joy of salvation and the hope of Heaven.

When you possess this wonderful gift of Salvation, the wise Master Artist begins His creative work on you. He has a wide variety of tools and methods uniquely adapted to your life. Doubtless He is using some of them in your life today.

Often God uses spiritual sandpaper. It might be the roughness of someone’s personality in your life at home or at work or at school. It could be some troublesome, grating circumstance that is irritating you.

Perhaps you are in a waiting period, waiting for your situation to change, waiting for someone to change, waiting for your ship to come it. Have you found oftentimes that God is not in a hurry? Do you sometimes find yourself trusting your own tools and assets? Are you frustrated with the colors God is using or the objects (tools) He is using?

Some of the tools used to remove or add paint in faux painting are plain and simple things like crumpled newspapers, crumpled plastic, and crumpled rags. So, too, God may use simple, ordinary or unusual things in your life to fashion you into a mighty work for His glory.

Are you frustrated because you do not think you have what it takes to become a beautiful treasure? Are you overcome with the feeling that you are not a gifted person? Every Christian has been given one or more spiritual gifts (teacher, helps, etc.).

Let me introduce you to the treasure box family of four sisters. All of them are different with a variety of colors, various temperaments, with strengths and weaknesses, and not one of them is perfect.

1) Meet Melancholy Maude. This oldest sister is a gifted, sensitive perfectionist, loyal, idealistic. She wants everything she does to be perfect. But everything is not perfect. That is where the sandpaper comes in. It does not help the situation when she becomes critical. She has the tendency to be negative and unsociable. The school of life has been difficult for Maude. She longs to use all her musical ability but is stuck day after day at the computer. Her boss does not appreciate her diligent excellence. Her sisters resent her critical and negative attitudes.

2) Sanguine Suki grates on her sisters’ nerves with her friendly, carefree, outgoing ways. Sometimes Suki is loud. Very often she exaggerates. Suki finds Maude’s unsociable behavior difficult to understand.

3) Younger sister, Choleric Chloe, complicates the home situation with her confident leadership abilities. Her productive, optimistic and practical outlook is not always appreciated by her older sisters, who frown on her strong will and sometimes proud, angry, sarcastic responses. Her domineering roll frequently is strongly resented by her oldest sister, Maude.

4) Phlegmatic Phoebe, the youngest of the four adds spice to the home with her efficient, humorous, calm, easy-going ways. Why can’t everybody be like Phoebe? Her practical, diplomatic solutions do not please Maude. Suki and Chloe find her selfish, unmotivated and indecisive and constantly fearful.

Every sister has her good points and her bad points. Amazingly God often uses the bad points in someone else’s personality as sandpaper to teach us to react in a Christ-like way, and that can be painful.

Tim LaHaye says, "Everyone I have ever counseled has revealed traits of more than one temperament. However, one temperament will usually be more prominent than another."

Your temperament may have changed since you became a Christian. God helps us overcome weaknesses, and He works in spite of weaknesses. When we better understand ourselves and open up to God to work in and through us, He can do wonders. As we yield to the Master Artist, He promises grand rewards, not always on earth, but eternal, out-of-this-world rewards in the glory to come.

God is willing to fill Suki with love instead of self-centeredness. He is ready to give Phoebe joy instead of fear. He can help unsociable Maude to reach out to others in a caring way. God wants to calm down an angry Chloe and fill her with His peace and meekness.

God can do what we cannot do. He has the wisdom to help each one of us get along with others. "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him." (James 1:5). We are in the School of God, learning, learning, learning through the processes God uses.

There are two priceless keys in yielding to God’s process and getting along with other personalities. The are:

1) The Arm of Love
2) The Arm of Forgiveness

Reach out with the arm of love and the arm of forgiveness. God will give you the ability to love and forgive and you will be richly rewarded for it. Choose to forgive, even if you have been deeply hurt. God forgives you for everything when you confess.

You are a treasure. You are becoming the beautiful masterpiece. Let God do it.

What is the secret of the beautiful life?

"We have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us" (2 Corinthians 4:7).

 TRUE WORTH
By Wendy Greiner Lefko

A beautiful jewel? I don’t think so!
Not me, Lord, certainly not me!
I have no earthly value;
My outer "shell" leaves much to be desired;
I have rough edges, cracks and scars;
My color is dull, I’ve lost my sheen;
Beautiful, Lord? No!
Not much to look at;
No high price would be paid for me.
Oh, my precious, lovely treasure,
You are My pride and joy!
I do not see the scars;
I see mine I bore for you;
I do not see a dullened hue,
I see the vivid color of My blood shed for you.
I do not see a tattered shell;
I see the shell of My body
Laid in a tomb and raised anew for you;
I see the only part of you that will not wither
And blow away like sand on the shore;
The rest does not matter!
You are beautiful to Me!
For the real jewel, the precious, priceless stone
Of eternal value,
Lies far beneath the outer earthly crust,
Where no man can see,
No man can touch,
That is what I see.
That is all I am looking for.
And when you allow Me to form that stone
Into the precious, perfect jewel,
I know only I can design,
You possess a worth with everlasting value
Far beyond any earthly measure!
And My seal is the only one that counts,
For I am the Jeweler,
And I paid a very high price for you--
Because I love you;
You are My priceless jewel,
And your worth lies in Me.

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